52 Assignments: Composition is a year's worth of inspiring weekly assignments to kick-start your creativity. This book is a mission brief, a portfolio of photographic workshops, a personalised journal and an inspirational guide to putting the creativity back into your craft. It is filled with a year's worth of weekly commissions and concepts for expanding your knowledge of how to compose photographs that will wow your audience. The 52 topics explore all the classic compositional techniques you'd expect, but in fresh and challenging ways that will allow you to capture your favourite subjects in a new light. Your weekly assignments include the following: Casting shadows, Find and frame, Living on the edge, In living colour, Obscure and distort, Drama in the dark, Blurred vision, Edge to edge, The motion picture, Weather watchers, Into the blue, Shape your vision This book includes: . A year's worth of weekly photography assignments to kick-start your creativity . Innovative briefs from one of the world's leading photography tutors . Composition challenges in a format to fit in your bag . Aimed at beginners and enthusiasts Full of technical advice and professional tips, the book includes space for you to add your own notes, lists and tech specs, creating a unique journal to record the journey you have made with your imagery. Complete the assignments every week over the course of a year, or dip in whenever you need to introduce a new concept or creative approach to your monochromatic photography. AUTHOR: Antony Zacharias is an award-winning photographer who specializes in long exposure photography. He uses a variety of techniques to create fine art prints in landscape, travel, urban and night sky photography. Antony is particularly known for his vivid architectural images and his unique perspectives on cities ranging from New York and London to Amsterdam and Paris. His work has been commissioned by clients including Toyota US and Sky Atlantic, and published by the BBC, Guardian, Times and Ecologist; and he was a finalist in the National Geographic Traveller competition. He offers tutorials and sells fine art images on his website, antonyz.com.
